Mattauch was one of the Göttinger Achtzehn (Göttingen eighteen), a group of eighteen leading nuclear researchers of the Federal Republic of Germany who in 1957 wrote a manifesto (Göttinger Manifest, Göttinger Erklärung) opposing chancellor Konrad Adenauer and defense secretary Franz-Josef Strauß's move to arm the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons.
Josef Mengele | Josef Albers | Franz Josef Land | Josef Schwarz | Josef Terboven | Josef Locke | Josef Koudelka | Josef Čapek | Franz Josef Strauss | Josef Hofmann | Josef Wiesehöfer | Josef Szeiler | Josef Frings | Josef Fares | Franz Josef Strauß | Josef von Sternberg | Josef Tal | Josef Meinrad | Josef Dietrich | Josef Zisyadis | Josef W. Wegner | Josef Vojta | Josef Svoboda | Josef Schulz | Josef Ressel | Josef Priller | Josef Pieprzyk | Josef Pasternack | Josef Nesvadba | Josef Myrow |
Fritz Bopp, Max Born, Rudolf Fleischmann, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Otto Haxel, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Kopfermann, Max v. Laue, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Josef Mattauch, Friedrich Paneth, Wolfgang Paul, Wolfgang Riezler, Fritz Straßmann, Wilhelm Walcher, Carl Friedrich Frhr. v. Weizsäcker, Karl Wirtz